Source: WECT, 1/8/19

Every year, members of the Cape Fear Craft Beer Alliance collaborate to release a new beer at Craft Beer Week. It’s made available in cans and on draft at breweries, bars and bottle shops. Due to the partial government shutdown, the labels for 2019′s new beer this year could be in jeopardy. Breweries that produce a new beer have to get state label approval before it can be packaged, according to Jeremy Tomlinson, president of the Cape Fear Craft Beer Alliance. Part of the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission’s process requires that the brewery submit and get approval to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).

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